Sunday, October 31, 2021

ANSWERS: Link-Letters 10

Happy Halloween, everyone! I'm gonna be busy for most of today binging Halloween episodes and specials, so I'll make this quick and list the eighteen people who solved "Link-Letters 10" from two weeks ago:

  • Grant Fikes
  • Cindy Heisler
  • Giovanni Pagano
  • Joe Bernard
  • Kevin Orfield
  • Tyler Hinman
  • Karen Spencer
  • Meg Duvall
  • Sam Levitin
  • Alex Sisti
  • Tamara Brenner
  • Michael Lebowitz
  • Elliott Frankfother
  • Peter Abide
  • Mom
  • Wendy Walker
  • Mindy Moore
  • Lynn Sweeney
Now head below the break for the answers as well as a solver's comment!

Monday, October 25, 2021

PUZZLE #358: Slide Show: Double Feature 3

PUZZLE #358
SLIDE SHOW: DOUBLE FEATURE 3

In each of the two puzzles below, slide the 18 letters surrounding each grid into the empty squares so that four words are made reading across and five words are formed reading down. Letters above and below the grids slide vertically to any position without changing columns, and letters to the left and right slide horizontally without changing rows. All of the exterior letters are used only once, and as a help, each grid has two letters already placed inside.

Once both grids have been filled in, pick out one word from each and combine them to get the FINAL ANSWER: the two-word name of a horror movie from the early 2000s


Once you believe you've figured out the FINAL ANSWER, send it to either redhead64@chartermi.net or itsredhead64@gmail.com (though I'm more likely to check the second one) and I'll put your name on a solvers list once I post the answers in about two weeks. You can also use those email addresses to give me some comments and feedback (or even ask for a hint, though you'll be marked as having used one if you do so) or send me the answer to last week's puzzle, if you haven't already figured it out. If you have a printer and want to solve this puzzle on paper, just head below the break for a link to a .PDF version which you can print out!

Sunday, October 24, 2021

ANSWERS: Sudokurostic 2

Almost two weeks have gone by since my second "Sudokurossword" puzzle was posted on this blog. Since then, an impressive nineteen people have successfully solved it, and they're all listed below:

  • Grant Fikes
  • Cindy Heisler
  • M. Sean Molley
  • Giovanni Pagano
  • Kevin Orfield
  • Meg Duvall
  • Tyler Hinman
  • Tommy Weigle
  • Sam Levitin
  • Wendy Walker
  • Mom
  • Tamara Brenner
  • Lynn Sweeney
  • Karen Spencer
  • Stephen Potter
  • Alex Sisti
  • Peter Abide
  • Michael Lebowitz
  • Mindy Moore
Now head below the break for the answers!

Monday, October 18, 2021

PUZZLE #357: Link-Letters 10

PUZZLE #357
LINK-LETTERS 10

There are two clues for each numbered row. The answers to each row's first clue go in the squares to the left of the first black bar in each correspondingly numbered row in the puzzle's grid, and the answers to the second clue go into the squares to the right of the second black bar. Then a single letter (the "Link-Letter") goes in the square in the middle to complete a single word that reads all the way across. For example, if the two words are CON and ACT, you can put a "T" between them to get CONTACT.

Once you've filled out all eight rows, the central letters will spell out two words reading down. Add a letter between those two words in the red square to get this week's FINAL ANSWER: the name of a young adult novel


1) Peter Griffin's only daughter in Family Guy
    It's attached to an answering machine
2) Short-term employee
    Devoured durians, say
3) Playful prank
    Very large film format for Fantasia 2000's initial theatrical release
4) Day, to José
    Part of Stimpy's face which is big and blue
5) 8-inch sandwiches from Jimmy John's, say
    Journal kept by Bridget Jones
6) Stubbs who was the original lead singer of the Four Tops
    Holier-_____-thou
7) Bashful ghost from Super Mario World
    Deducts from one's pay
8) Choose to do without
    Cube root of 1,000

Once you think you know what the FINAL ANSWER is, send it to either redhead64@chartermi.net or itsredhead64@gmail.com (though I'm more likely to check the second one) and I'll put your name on a solvers list once I post the answers in about two weeks. You can also use those email addresses to give me some comments and feedback (or even ask for a hint, though you'll be marked as having used one if you do so) or send me the answer to last week's puzzle, if you haven't already figured it out. If you have a printer and want to solve this puzzle on paper, just head below the break for a link to a .PDF version which you can print out!

Sunday, October 17, 2021

ANSWERS: Honeycomb 3

It's been close to two weeks since "Honeycomb 3" was posted on this blog, and a whopping twenty people have solved it since then! Take a look:

  • Grant Fikes
  • Cindy Heisler
  • Giovanni Pagano
  • Dave C.
  • Joe Bernard
  • Pavel Curtis
  • Kevin Orfield
  • Tamara Brenner
  • Sam Levitin
  • Wendy Walker
  • Mom
  • Tyler Hinman
  • Patrick Jordan
  • Mindy Moore
  • Meg Duvall
  • Lynn Sweeney
  • Tommy Weigle
  • Debbie Benford
  • Peter Abide
  • Dan Simonds
Now with that list out of the way, head below the break for the answers!

Monday, October 11, 2021

PUZZLE #356: Sudokurostic 2

PUZZLE #356
SUDOKUROSTIC 2

Below is supposed to be a sudoku/wordoku puzzle, but unfortunately, the whole grid is completely blank. To fill it in, solve the clues so that the answers fill out the dashes (one letter per dash), then transfer each letter to the grid according to the coordinates below each dash, like an anacrostic puzzle. For example, if the coordinates were "e5", then its corresponding letter should go in the square in row "e" and column "5". Not all of the grid's squares will ultimately be filled in, so it's up to you to complete the rest of the wordoku puzzle, making sure that each row, column, and 3x3 box contains the same nine unique letters without any repeats.

Once the grid has been completely filled, look through it like a word search to find the FINAL ANSWER: a proper noun that's at least six letters long


• Is more-or-less obligated to
   __ __ __ __
   a9 c4 e1 d8
Phoebe and Her Unicorn and Hi and Lois, for two
   __ __ __ __ __ __
   i6 h7 f4 d2 h1 a4
• Setting for Judge Mathis
   __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
   a8 g6 d6 f2 h4 c7 i2 e9 b3
The _____ of Happyness (2006 Will Smith film)
   __ __ __ __ __ __ __
   d3 a2 i8 f7 i1 e4 b9
• What a screenwriter writes
   __ __ __ __ __ __
   g3 g9 b6 f8 c1 e6

Once you believe you've figured out the FINAL ANSWER, send it to either redhead64@chartermi.net or itsredhead64@gmail.com (though I'm more likely to check the second one) and I'll put your name on a solvers list once I post the answers in about two weeks. You can also use those email addresses to give me some comments and feedback (or even ask for a hint, though you'll be marked as having used one if you do so) or send me the answer to last week's puzzle, if you haven't already figured it out. If you have a printer and want to solve this puzzle on paper, just head below the break for a link to a .PDF version which you can print out!

Sunday, October 10, 2021

ANSWERS: Sunburst 3

Roughly two weeks have gone by since "Sunburst 3" was posted on this blog, and just like last week, a total of seventeen people have successfully solved it, all of whom are listed below:

  • Grant Fikes
  • Cindy Heisler
  • Giovanni Pagano
  • Karen Spencer
  • Tamara Brenner
  • Mom
  • Sam Levitin
  • Tyler Hinman
  • Kevin Orfield
  • Elliott Frankfother
  • Debbie Benford
  • Wendy Walker
  • Alex Sisti
  • Lynn Sweeney
  • Michael Lebowitz
  • Peter Abide
  • Mindy Moore
Now head below the break for the answers as well as a solver's comment!

Monday, October 4, 2021

PUZZLE #355: Honeycomb 3

PUZZLE #355
HONEYCOMB 3

Each six-letter word is to be entered clockwise or counterclockwise around the correspondingly numbered black cell, though the direction and starting point of each answer is for you to determine.

Once the grid has been filled out, the colored hexagons, when read either clockwise or counterclockwise, will spell out the FINAL ANSWER: a 6-letter word


1) Alaska's highest mountain
2) _____ Rouge! (musical directed by Baz Luhrmann)
3) Ricky Martin's old boy band
4) Accustoms to hardship [NOTE: Either spelling will fit, but my answer has no repeating letters]
5) Fighting game character's posture
6) _____ rasa (blank slate)
7) Has skepticism about
8) Coercion
9) Bring back a long-dormant media franchise, say
10) Ryan from The Drew Carey Show
11) Periods of equilibrium
12) Kind of droopy-eared hound
13) Incredible bargains
14) Bread aisle array
15) The "X" in Professor X's name
16) Bring in goods from Greece, maybe
17) Most impolite
18) Hyundai's Accent and Sonata, for two
19) "Wabbit _____!" "Duck _____!"
20) Greetings from the 50th state
21) Pulled a fast one
22) It's tested by bopping a knee with a hammer
23) Brain cell that acts on impulse
24) Like medieval England
25) Bump's idiomatic location: 3 wds.
26) Buddies in Barcelona
27) Hillary Clinton's maiden name
28) Sings like the climber in the Price is Right game "Cliff Hangers"
29) Overwhelm with noise
30) _____ of Seagulls (new wave band with three Top 40 hits): 2 wds.
31) "I think", according to Descartes
32) License needed to legally hunt
33) Winnie the Pooh character with a detachable tail
34) Archimedes' cry of triumph
35) Hole in a pool table
36) Gadget that played CD-ROM games on the go, once
37) Gone off to beddy-bye

Once you think you know what the FINAL ANSWER is, send it to either redhead64@chartermi.net or itsredhead64@gmail.com (though I'm more likely to check the second one) and I'll put your name on a solvers list once I post the answers in about two weeks. You can also use those email addresses to give me some comments and feedback (or even ask for a hint, though you'll be marked as having used one if you do so) or send me the answer to last week's puzzle, if you haven't already figured it out. If you have a printer and want to solve this puzzle on paper, just head below the break for a link to a .PDF version which you can print out!

Sunday, October 3, 2021

ANSWERS: Gryptics 5

It's been thirteen days since "Gryptics 5" was posted on this blog, and a superb seventeen people since then have successfully solved it, as you can see in the list below:

  • Grant Fikes
  • Cindy Heisler
  • Dave C.
  • Pavel Curtis
  • Kevin Orfield
  • Peter Abide
  • Karen Spencer
  • Giovanni Pagano
  • Mom
  • Charles Flaster
  • Michael Lebowitz
  • Tamara Brenner
  • Sam Levitin
  • Meg Duvall
  • Lynn Sweeney
  • Wendy Walker
  • Tyler Hinman
Now head below the break for the answers as well as a couple solvers' comments!